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32 pp.
| HarperCollins/Geringer
| April, 2002
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TradeISBN 0-06-623822-6$$15.95
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LibraryISBN 0-06-623823-4$$15.89
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PS
Illustrated by
Nate Evans.
The author of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie offers advice on monster selection, feeding, exercising, and grooming, as well as "putting your monster to bed." The signature deadpan humor misses the mark, often coming off as puzzling non sequiturs, but the bright artwork is sweet, showing an amiable green monster with purple spots and bat ears playing with a towheaded boy.
32 pp.
| Simon
| May, 2000
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TradeISBN 0-689-83109-9$$15.00
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K-3
Ready-to-Read series.
Illustrated by
Nate Evans.
This is a simple, humorous, easy-to-read mixture of cautionary warnings, advice, and encouragement on the joys and hazards of in-line skating. The cartoonlike illustrations show skaters gearing up, learning to balance and stop before learning how to go, and finally getting to "glide forward." The instructional text is straightforward, but it devolves into clunky rhyming verse at the end.
41 pp.
| July, 1998
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TradeISBN 0-679-89163-3$$7.99
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Nate Evans.
A series of hungry monsters eats everything but the kitchen sink as they count up the numbers from one to twenty. Numeroff's clever rhymes will inspire quite a few laughs (although the adjectives she uses to describe the monsters don't have much to do with their antics); Evans's cartoony monsters are amusing, but his compositions are often overly busy.